La Domaine Esemar in New York is a training BDSM facility where people can learn to become Masters and Mistresses

Over 500 couples and thousands of paying kinksters have jetted from around the world to visit the chateau’s famous dungeon, run by Mistress Couple and her training submissives.

From the outside, it looks like an inconspicuous house, but descend to its depths and you’ll discover everything from sex swings, a wax table, knives, daggers, gas masks, genital clamps and barb wire – catering to every fetish imaginable.

Mistress Couple, 31, and her 68-year-old partner, who goes by the name of Master R, lifted the lid on life inside the chateau’s four walls for the Sun Online, and revealed the kink that goes on in its depths.

One of the fantasies the 1,250-sq-ft dungeon recently helped realise was a man who came to them with a fetish to be roasted on a spit.

Master R explained: “The fetish is called ‘schwanandreher’, it is a very deeply ingrained human fetish and he said it is completely historical.”

The process allows willing human “roastees” and those with a carnal fetish, be coated in sauce and tied to a wooden post by “slaves” in the house’s 20-acre grounds.

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The last legitimate BDSM chateau, Le Chateau in Portugal, closed in the Eighties, and La Domaine Esemar was created in 1993 and moved to its current location shortly after.

From politicians to sports stars, actors, military advisors and businessmen, and even truck drivers and single mums, people from all walks of life have flocked to La Domaine Esemar in its 24 years of operation.

Master R said: “We are the only place for them to go, this is the only one around.

“We all are beasts whether we want to admit it and like every other animal in the animal kingdom, dominance and submission is a crucial part of how we exist and survive.

“It is embedded in every person regardless of their social standing and employment, it is in all of us.

“We all come from Pharaohs and slaves, every type of person ends up here.”

Interestingly, the most popular clientele who come through their door are those from the medical profession and people who “heal” and “touch”.

And for those who haven’t been through medical school, the dungeon comes with its own clinical physician’s room with surgical instruments and fake blood splattered on the floor.

Master R laughed: “Our house physician loves that area. I think he became a doctor because he secretly always wanted to play mad doctor.”

One of the popular fetishes at the moment is pony play where at least one person plays the part of a non-human beast

As well as the doctor’s surgery, another commonly used area is the cage, where two or three “slaves” can cram into the small space for periods of time or even sleep there overnight.

Others prefer the “Pain Gym” where Slaves can be literally whipped into shape, or the chair nicknamed Vlad the Impaler; which has a motorised butt plug coming out of the seat.

One of the popular fetishes at the moment, Mistress Couple reveals, is pony play or animal roleplay, where at least one person plays the part of a non-human beast and is subject to saddles and whips.

Another requested skill to learn is the art of flogging, both physically and getting the skills to emotionally handle the act.

Mistress Couple’s personal favourite is balloon play, which involves being tied up and using the inflatables in play.

Master R said: “Things occasionally go wrong, all you can do is deal with it lovingly and careful and hope you don’t need an ambulance. So far we’ve never had to call an ambulance.”

Sessions typically cost $300 (£234) for an hour’s one-on-one session with the Headteacher herself, which rises to $450 (£351) for couples looking to visit the dungeon together for erotic, non-intercourse-related services.

Around 30 clients are usually seen each month, and the chateau is never short of individuals keen to play out their fantasies at hosted parties.

Mistress Couple, 31, and her 68-year-old partner, who goes by the name of Master R, lifted the lid on life inside the chateau’s four walls

A common reason a couple may book a session is if one partner is looking to experiment with cross-dressing or bondage, when perhaps the other is more hesitant.

And many come for a weekend or overnight stay in the home’s private bed chamber.

For $350 (£273), you can spend the night at the chateau, with private access to the dungeon and breakfast included, in a package called the Choose Your Own Adventure.

And there are also erotic meals that can be booked for $85 (£66) per person which seek to stimulate all the senses and provide a sensual experience, hosted by often nude or scantily-clad submissives.

For those look for a more permanent immersion into the BDSM lifestyle, the chateau is a training facility that offers a Masters and Mistresses programme.

While the dungeon seeks to push the boundaries of exploring complex sexual desires, it has attracted some characters that Mistress Couple has had to turn away.

Master R said: “We absolutely have turned people away.

“We have really learned how to conduct an interview with someone before they come throughout doors.

“We haven’t had any disasters recently, but we certainly had disasters for people who have walked in who we are unable to deal with because it affects their psyche differently and deeply, or they just have huge personal issues which they confuse with dominance and submission in an unhealthy way.

The dungeon seeks to push the boundaries of exploring complex sexual desires

If the couple encounter someone who they feel is beyond their help and could benefit from professional help, they recommend them to a professional therapist and psychologists.

Mistress C: “We aren’t just releasing these people back into the wild by themselves.”

One of the greatest areas the couple have seen “inner monsters” come out, is through their BDSM Masters and Mistresses training programme.

The programmes, which can last up to two years, see dominant individuals or couples, who wish to have a submissive relationship in their life, role-reverse so they can experience life on the other side.

Mistress Couple currently has around eight to ten submissives who help around the house doing tasks like cleaning and chores.

Master R explained: “The reason our Masters and Mistresses training programme is so difficult, is we take these people who are already so dominant and we make them deeply submissive so they know what they are going to do with their own slaves.

“In that process their personal monsters really appear.

“Because sex is metaphor and BDSM is obviously a metaphor for dominance and submission and that gets into the unhealthy aspects of violence.”

Many come for a weekend or overnight stay in the home’s private bed chamber that is decorated with a range of kinky treats

Mistress C added: “In order to dominant and master someone you have to master yourself first.”

And that is something that Mistress Couple has developed, since she had graduated as a dance and psychology double major from college.

After her studies, she had asked her boyfriend to spank her for her birthday present, but he hadn’t be able to as he said he didn’t feel it was right to hit a woman.

She confided in her friends her desire, and one of her friends revealed she was a mistress-in-training at the chateau and invited her along for a party.

There she was spanked by guests for 25 minutes, which was her first BDSM experience. Since then she has never looked back.

She said: “I started by exploring my submission and masochism and unlearning alot of the misconceptions that I had about what dominance meant and over the course of my training, I realised I did have the capacity for domninancy and did the Mistress training programme and became Headmistress a few years ago.”

We previously shared how a dominatrix revealed Hollywood’s wild secret fetish parties, where clients including A-list movie stars are whipped and beaten.